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396 the brother's sacrifice ;
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" Who Would Ever Have Supposed That Brit...
mor order caress e like her her to boy his desist with dead . more fath As er Magnie than and usual this grew fondness striking up he , likeness became lie would more drew roug and the hly
mother ' s heart still closer , to him . She was no heroine of romance , only a simple cottager all , and her second it husband not to was be
wondered totally different at if they from did her not in sort things over well , so . James was felt ( and _-with some truth ) that Britta ' s affections were too divided that between his love
had her son been and stedfast her unburied and di _s than interested early love , ; and he he knew thought he _deserved the
some return more warm gratitude or duty promptedconstant remembrance of all this onlserved to irritate and
y a estrange convivial more fellow and too more was this James alread Farquar y irascible and temper in the . habit He wag of
frequenting ale hon a drinking was , - over shop in James the nei returned ghbourhood , to the ; so dangerou when the s
habit p s which eymoon had been laid , aside in the time of his courtship . the was James b no yre , lack was sheep _" of well on fish the to or do hill meal ; , " ponies he now had on money for the when common in the they bank ; could and , cows there not m -
he Magnie procure would never these not rather wen with t supperless th have eir wanted own to hands bed his , , now warm they , but , and porri could I nestle query dge buy , than much them her not if ;
loving to have breast been before allowed going to to kiss sleep his . mother He never , dared to seek on her caress in the presence of his step-father , whose jealousy of the
child became almost a monomania . It was scarcely to her ' would wondered have that borne Britta ' s amount meek sp of irit ill-tr rebelled eatment sometimes to herself . She but _- ;
when the heavy hand any of her intoxicated husband fell with mother that brutal would force ' s heart on otherwise the rose shrinking up have in arms been form , and silent of bitter " Magnie . I words am ' s boy fell afraid , " fro then m Britta li the
pssometimes wished that she had descended to beg and be homelessrather than suffer the bondage she was now under $
but in iven the , to second her year and of her her warm second thoug marriag h bruised e , a second spirit was son
filled was g with a tenderer , feeling towards , the baby ' s father . One would have supposed that the new tie would have unreasonabl softened
jealous James' feelings of Magnie as than well , ever but . it onl Now y m he ade was him alway more s on the watch y the mother
to detect some symptom of a partial affection on ' s part , but this he never discovered , for Britta , perhaps firstborn aware
particularl James of her own y not . careful overweening satisfied that and the attachment took fact might opportunity nev to er her be observed of indul ; , g still was ing
his own was sonand maltreating poor every Magnie , whose love for the ,
396 The Brother's Sacrifice ;
396 the brother ' s sacrifice ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/36/
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